# Korean War
Latest news and articles about Korean War
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Generations of Service: Veteran Bugler and 76‑Year‑Old Grandmother Mark Emotional Send‑Off for New Recruits
State media circulated images of a Korean War veteran playing a farewell bugle and a 76‑year‑old grandmother handing dumplings to a new recruit at an enlistment ceremony, portraying generational continuity and public support for the military. The vignette serves both as a human interest story and as a deliberate piece of messaging that reinforces domestic legitimacy for China’s defence posture.
A 95‑Year‑Old Korean War Veteran Cuts a New Recruit’s Hair — A Viral Moment of Generational Duty
A viral video shows a 95‑year‑old Korean War veteran cutting the hair of a young woman about to enter military service, a gesture lauded online as a passing of duty. The moment underscores how personal stories of veterans are used to humanize the armed forces and shape public attitudes toward military service, especially for women.
A Soldier’s Truth on Screen: Zhang Yongshou and the Making of China’s Wartime Icons
Zhang Yongshou, who enlisted at 14 and later served in the Korean War, became a prominent actor and director in China’s military cinema. He turned frontline entertainment into a lifelong mission to render the ‘soul of the soldier’ on screen, shaping popular memory and serving official narratives about sacrifice and service.
Lost Wartime Letters, Found Across Borders: How 300+ Korean War Notes Are Returning to Chinese Families
A South Korean scholar digitised over 300 handwritten letters sent by Chinese volunteers in the Korean War and posted them online, prompting Zhejiang University alumni and local veterans' bureaus to track down and return copies to families. So far seven published letters have produced six successful reunions, highlighting the power of transnational archival cooperation and the enduring personal cost of the 1950–53 conflict.
War Letters Returned: How a South Korean Scholar and Chinese Alumni Traced 70-Year-Old Family Mail Home
A South Korean academic and Zhejiang University alumni network have been returning copies of more than 300 Chinese Volunteer Army wartime letters to the families of the dead and missing. The project has reunited several families with decades‑old correspondence, revealing the human cost of the Korean War and underscoring the value of cross‑border archival cooperation and rapid digitisation.
‘I Watch This Peace for My Brothers’: A Shangganling Veteran’s Story of Sacrifice and Memory
Deng Zhangde, a decorated veteran of the 1952 Shangganling (Triangle Hill) battle in the Korean War, recounts survival, comradeship and survivor's guilt. Now elderly, he tours schools and military units to pass on the visceral realities of combat and to symbolically guard the peaceful era his fallen comrades never lived to see.
Across 76 Years: Navy Unit Reunites Two Chosin Veterans, Turning Memory into Mission
PLA naval personnel visited two elderly veterans of the 1950 Chosin Reservoir battle in Shandong ahead of the Lunar New Year, using filmed footage to reintroduce comrades separated by 76 years and poor health. The visits combined veteran welfare, patriotic education, and a symbolic reaffirmation of continuity between wartime sacrifice and the present military.
Veterans’ Last Duty: Chongqing Soldiers Choose Body Donation to Remain ‘In One Ranks’
In Chongqing a growing number of retired soldiers are donating their bodies to medical science and inscribing their names together on a memorial stone, framing the act as a continuation of wartime service. Their choices illustrate how a respected cohort can influence public attitudes toward organ and body donation in China, helping supply cadavers for medical training while also reinforcing narratives of civic duty.
China's Red Curriculum: How Returned War Remains Are Being Used to Teach a New Generation to Love the Motherland
Liaoning schools have integrated the ritual return of Korean War remains into immersive patriotic education, using family artifacts, memorial museums and border-classroom lessons to turn historical memory into a formative experience for children. The practice reflects a broader state-led emphasis on “red education” that aims to instill national loyalty and civic responsibility in the next generation.